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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-7750: Security patch for python-paramiko (ALAS-2018-989)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-7750: Security patch for python-paramiko (ALAS-2018-989)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/06/2018
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

transport.py in the SSH server implementation of Paramiko before 1.17.6, 1.18.x before 1.18.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, 2.3.x before 2.3.2, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed before processing other requests, as demonstrated by channel-open. A customized SSH client can simply skip the authentication step.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python-paramiko

References

  • ALAS-2018-989
  • USN-3603-1
  • USN-3603-2
  • CVE-2018-7750

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